SAVE my family from DIVORCE DISASTER

SAVE my family from DIVORCE DISASTER

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$2,772

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Goal:
$7,500

From Joelle Craft

I'm raising money for a divorce attorney. My ex has contacted his own attorney and has been doing a lot of things behind my back. One of the reasons we are not together. We have a 13 yr old that doesn't need to suffer.

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Hello my name is Joelle Craft. I am a 41 year old woman
finding myself in a dire situation. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
(MS) when I was 16 years old. This was a devastation to me but I was
determined, after my initial grief, to live my life out to the fullest it could
be. This basically was going well until 2012 when my health dramatically
decreased and I was fast tracked on disability because of the severity of my
MS. Even this didn’t stop me from the volunteer activism that I was doing. I
may have had to drop things from my life but I still try to give back to the
community in one way or another. I worked, volunteered, on the Charity Care
Campaign against Providence Swedish Hospital because healthcare should not be a
rich right. I had gone medically bankrupt due to them putting me in collections
because they squandered charity care. That has destroyed my financials since.
I’m only 7 years in a 10 year bankruptcy because of a disease that has no cure.
However with that I have always tried to do best for myself and my family.

I raised 3 children in which 2 are out of the house and the
youngest is 12 and also worked and went to school. All of this with this
debilitating disease and medical bills always piling up because I won’t choose
death on the spinning wheel of the medical billing system. I am always trying
to take care of myself and my loved ones.

My husband and I were married back in 2005 and were together
for a few years before that. I was diagnosed long before he met me and he
watched my health deteriorate over the years. We are now in the process of a
divorce. Due to my disability I am not able to maintain a full or part time
work which means I rely on less than a $1000 a month to live off of and he is a
journeyman electrician with many opportunities in front of him. He still lives
in the house that we both own and I am in a rental with friends/roommates. My
debt to income ratio is off the charts while his is not. Hence the well-paying
job vs disability that is soon to be cut more.

Right now because of my disability I was unable to attain a
lawyer like my ex could. I have already started reading the papers and his
lawyer is already putting things in that are geared for him and against me. As
a disabled woman I am not able to do side work or get another job to get a
lawyer and the pro bono ones are backed up with the many cases of several
others that are in need.

I am asking for your help. I want to be able to provide for
myself and my child when I see her and have the amicable divorce that we as
parents want but it seems that his lawyer is only working for him and against
me. I want to be able to have a lawyer look for my best interests as well as my
child’s without me having the stress and lack of knowledge to hope that I am
doing it correctly. Please help provide a lawyer for me so that our child
doesn’t have to see her mother get destroyed because one side could have a
lawyer and the other couldn’t because of money.

All the money will go towards the divorce attorney
and if for some reason there is any leftover I will put it straight into a fund
for the youngest to do activities and other engaging opportunities for her.

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Update #2

This was us on her birthday not too long ago. I have talked with a lawyer but without the retainer fee I am stuck. Thank you to everyone who has helped and to those who are still helping. It means a lot to me.

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Update #1

I spent the other day with my daughter. It was a beautiful day with her. I did however find out that more things are being done behind my back. My daughter thought I knew everything that is going on. I'm so disappointed and scared for her. Please help by sharing and commenting on this. I need to get her out of there.